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Recent Examples of anomaly Europe is moving towards the second launch of its new Ariane 6 launcher after finding and addressing anomalies following its debut flight. Andrew Jones, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025 However, the upper stage encountered a propulsion anomaly approximately 10 minutes into the flight, leading to its failure. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 Show more The readings may have been anomalies, as the weather service office that covers Los Angeles reported calmer gusts this afternoon. NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025 In an interview with ABC News earlier on Monday, Southern California Edison's parent company CEO Pedro Pizarro said employees monitoring the lines remotely at the time saw no indications of any electrical anomalies that would typically cause sparking. Liz Baker, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for anomaly 
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Noun
  • Cohen is obviously fully on board with Stearns’ philosophy of limiting free agent deals to three years or fewer (the Soto contract of course being the notable exception).
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • As part of the agreement, GM will obtain affirmative customer consent to collect, use, or disclose certain types of connected vehicle data (with exceptions for certain purposes).
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Chief Executive Steven Powell reiterated in an interview with The Times the company’s assertion that its data showed no abnormalities in the 12 hours leading up to the ignition of the Eaton fire.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There were no abnormalities reported at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan or the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture, NHK said, referring to the two plants nearest to where the quake occurred.
    Rhea Rose Abraham, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In today’s landscape, dominated by NIL deals and the transfer portal, assembling such a cohesive unit from within is a rarity.
    Don Yaeger, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Owing to its format, still a relative rarity theatrically in 2007, the three-hour feature was little seen after its 2007 premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • If the mutations accumulate slowly, symptoms might not arrive until their 50s, 60s or beyond.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • With this new study, the research team was trying to determine if these outliers were a result of mutations caused by the fallout of the Chornobyl disaster.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Set in a new location with new monsters, Wilds introduces a new type of mount, new monsters, an improved wound system, focus mode, and a new tool called the hook slinger.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • What prompted the freak-out was Netflix’s warning that growth in the first part of 2022 would be slowing down — way down, as in nearly half of the 2021 Q1 growth.
    Vulture, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The latest episode of the Fox first responder series saw a freak storm system wreak havoc at a carnival, particularly for a newly single dad, Trevor (Lucifer's D.B. Woodside), who had to be rescued by the 126 twice in one day.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 25 Jan. 2023

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“Anomaly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anomaly. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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